Джонатан Валин0.0 To P.I. Harry Stoner, Ira Lessing had everything to live for: money, a beautiful wife, good friends, and a reputation that would do credit to a saint. But Lessing disappeared one hot July night, and Stoner knew in his gut that the man was dead. Years on the street had taught Stoner that no man is what he seems. Peeling away layers to the bone would reveal what had become of Lessing. It would lead Stoner into the underbelly of Cincinnati...into the places where desire and violence meet...into the darkest byways of the human heart where his own values would be tested to the bloody limit. By acts of love...and murder
Wayne D. Dundee0.0 Edgar Award-winner Wayne Dundee's hardboiled private-eye Joe Hannibal investigates a case to two murderer skinflick stars--and learn new tricks about pleasure and pain. Joe Hannibal is an old-fashioned private eye who smokes cigarettesm drinks bourbon, beads beautiful dames, and hews to an old-fashioned code of ethics.--Publishers Weekly. Martin's.
Марсия Мюллер0.0 Bobby Foster, car-hop at the chic Cafe Comedie, is going to the gas chamber. He's already confessed to the murder of Tracy Kostakos, the club's rising star. But two years after the crime, Tracy's body is still missing and Bobby's confession is full of holes. All Souls Legal Cooperative's final appeal sends San Francisco's #1 P.I. Sharon McCone behind the footlights into the super-charged arena of anxious club owners and aspiring young hopefuls...into the fractured world of Tracy's privileged family and the mind of a young comedienne who was not the good little girl they thought they knew...into a labyrinth of death and deception where someone will kill to laugh last and get away with murder.
Mickey Spillane3.5 From Publishers Weekly
"I rammed my elbow back and felt teeth go under it and the back of my head mashed the guy's nose who was holding me." Mike Hammer is back, and after almost 20 years, he's as psychotically hard-boiled as ever. Here, there's a dead man in Hammer's office chair. He has been horribly tortured; a note on the desk reads "You die for killing me," signed "Penta." Hammer's longtime secretary and sometime love interest, Velda, has been knocked unconscious and Hammer (no mellower despite the years), goes a-hunting. Gorgeous assistant DA Candace Amory warns Hammer off the case; he changes her mind. Penta turns up on government files as an assassin for hire, a billion dollars in drug money is missing and renegade CIA agents and mobsters are looking for Penta, while gunning for Hammer. Spillane's ( Kiss Me, Deadly ) dirty rain, mean streets, leggy broads, etc. have made him one of the all time best-selling authors--but many things, including present-day New York city, have changed since the '50s and Spillane has, for the most part, failed to notice. Readers will catch the bad guy 50 pages before Hammer does. $100,000 ad/promo.
Gaylord Dold0.0 A car bomb kills the woman Roberts has been hired to protect against threats. The trail of clues leads Roberts to Reno and a casino and brothel run by gangsters who have left a trail of murder that leads back to Wichita.
Gaylord Dold is the author of fifteen works of fiction including the highly acclaimed private detective series featuring Mitch Roberts, a well as numerous contemporary crime thrillers. Many of his novels have been singled out for awards and praise by a number of critics and writer’s organizations.
Дебора Валентайн0.0 San Francisco artist Roxanne Gautier's startling paintings of male prostitutes set off shock waves throughout the art world but it is her wealthy stockbroker husband who is most disturbed of all. When her beautiful young model washes up dead on the rocks below the Golden Gate Bridge, he asks ex-policeman Kevin Bryce to discreetly probe the source of her inspiration. But what Bryce discovers sets off a chain of revelations with repercussions no one could have predicted.
A Collector of Photographs was short-listed for an Edgar Allen Poe, Anthony Boucher, Macavity and Shamus award. It is the second in the series featuring Kevin Bryce and Katharine Craig.
Karen Kijewski0.0 When private eye Kat Colorado accepts a routine assignment investigating one man's finances, she never dreams that she will become embroiled in the elaborate, illegal, and dangerous scheming of a madman.
Jesse Sublett0.0 When Martin Fender's old band gets a one-night, high-paying offer to play a reunion gig, he jumps at the chance. But it turns out to be an offer he should have refused when he finds himself hip-deep in con artists, cocaine--and murder.
